Assessment of agricultural land suitability for irrigation with reclaimed water using geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis

Paul, Manashi; Negahban-Azar, Masoud; Shirmohammadi, Adel; Montas, Hubert J.

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2019.105987

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“…This gave the interns an opportunity to network and understand the CONSERVE team’s transdisciplinary approach. The interns were exposed to multiple aspects of recycled irrigation water use, including knowledge gaps concerning the quantity and quality of recycled irrigation water sources ( 6 – 9 ), cost-effective treatment technologies ( 10 – 13 ), farmer perceptions and knowledge ( 14 – 16 ), consumer response ( 17 ), and the regulatory factors governing agricultural water reuse ( 18 , 19 ). Additionally, they were exposed to our innovative extension and outreach programming ( 20 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“Zooming” Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program

Malayil

Negahban-Azar

Goldstein

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J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on education globally, forcing the teaching community to think outside the box and create innovative educational plans to benefit students at home. Here, we narrate how the undergraduate, laboratory-based Summer Internship Program of our CONSERVE Center of Excellence, which focuses heavily on engaging women and underrepresented minorities in STEM programming, took a turn from an in-person research experience to a fully virtual one.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Zooming” Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program

Malayil

Negahban-Azar

Goldstein

et al. 2021

J Microbiol Biol Educ.

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“…The interaction between factors or weights was not analyzed in all the SA [ 31 , 34 , 80 ]. For example, the One-At-a-Time approach (OAT) was applied in some studies with a weight variation only for the main criteria [ 31 ], obtaining a partial result that may mask the real variability of the final model. Only the GSA obtained the relations between all the parameters [ 52 ].…”

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“…The combination of MCE and GIS leads to solving a diversity of complex geospatial problems [ 29 , 30 ], discriminating against the most suitable alternatives to develop a particular activity (biomass plants, landfills, agriculture irrigated land, green infrastructures, delimitation of protected areas, wind farm projects, among many others) and being able to simulate different scenarios [ 23 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 ].…”

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Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Sensitivity Analysis for the Optimal Location of Constructed Wetlands (METland) at Oceanic and Mediterranean Areas

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Delgado

Esteve‐Núñez

2021

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METland is a new variety of Constructed Wetland (CW) for treating wastewater where gravel is replaced by a biocompatible electroconductive material to stimulate the metabolism of electroactive bacteria. The system requires a remarkably low land footprint (0.4 m2/pe) compared to conventional CW, due to the high pollutant removal rate exhibited by such microorganisms. In order to predict the optimal locations for METland, a methodology based on Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) techniques applied to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has been proposed. Seven criteria were evaluated and weighted in the context of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Finally, a Global Sensitivity Analysis (GSA) was performed using the Sobol method for resource optimization. The model was tested in two locations, oceanic and Mediterranean, to prove its feasibility in different geographical, demographic and climate conditions. The GSA revealed as conclusion the most influential factors in the model: (i) land use, (ii) distance to population centers, and (iii) distance to river beds. Interestingly, the model could predict best suitable locations by reducing the number of analyzed factors to just such three key factors (responsible for 78% of the output variance). The proposed methodology will help decision-making stakeholders in implementing nature-based solutions, including constructed wetlands, for treating wastewater in rural areas.

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“…Cucchiella et al [32] employed the AHP methodology to rate multiple criteria such as recycled waste, greenhouse gas, and government expenditure for environmental protection, for European countries. Paul et al [33] integrated the AHP and geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to analyze the potential of reclaimed water use in California's agricultural irrigation. Their study established the need to use both knowledge-based and data-driven criteria and sub-criteria during decision making.…”

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Agriculture for Sustainable Development: A SWOT-AHP Assessment of Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Initiative

2021

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The exponential increase in the population of Ghana and the need to meet the population’s food security needs while creating job opportunities have necessitated the implementation of the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) initiative by the Government of Ghana (GoG). Using the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analytical tool, we SWOT of the PFJ initiative. We further complemented the study with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) tool to rank the various criteria (factors) identified under the SWOT analysis. The study identified favorable environmental conditions as the highest strength, which recorded 59.3%, followed by agricultural lands availability (21.8%). Inadequate of financial services was identified as the highest weakness (55.8%), followed by over-reliance on climatic conditions (25.9%). High export potential relative to agricultural products in the country was identified as the highest opportunity, which recorded a weight of 50.3%. The One District One Factory (1D1F) initiative came up as the second highest opportunity. Negative ramification of climate change was identified as the main threat to Ghana’s agricultural sector (57.9%), followed by the importation of basic food products (25%).

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Assessment of agricultural land suitability for irrigation with reclaimed water using geospatial multi-criteria decision analysis

Cited by 72 publications

References 87 publications

“Zooming” Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program

“Zooming” Our Way through Virtual Undergraduate Research Training: A Successful Redesign of the CONSERVE Summer Internship Program

Multi-Criteria Evaluation and Sensitivity Analysis for the Optimal Location of Constructed Wetlands (METland) at Oceanic and Mediterranean Areas

Agriculture for Sustainable Development: A SWOT-AHP Assessment of Ghana’s Planting for Food and Jobs Initiative

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